Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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It's meant to be an upgrade given the car at the start of gb2 is breaking down. At one point it was going to be called ecto 2 and there's a scene where that number plate is visible. Had they went with that it would be more obvious it was a different car, 1-a just comes off as an upgrade to me. The movie missed out a few things in the novel, louis trying to trap slimer, ray getting possessed and trying to kill the crew in ecto, some parts of these were filmed (ray driving madly is in the montage) the louis scene was just scrapped and ended up as a deleted scene years later.
But the car in the new movie is the 1a fixed up
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/20...-flick-is-actually-the-once-neglected-ecto-1a
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Yeah, 1A was up for restoration after 1. But Sony got the bill for the major restoration of Ecto 1 ($100k upwards iirc) and stopped 1A going any further. Was sat in a back lot in pieces (as shown in your second picture)
I'm also pretty sure that the hero car in Afterlife is the 'restored' 1A. Would make sense.
Soldato
re: Ecto-1 and 1A
There was meant to be a scene in GB2 where you saw both cars in the firehouse garage making it explicit that 1A (or Ecto-2 at that stage) were different cars. That got jettisoned, presumably for time/plot relevance. I think the comics universe has them as separate cars as well.
I like the 1A look, with the white letter tyres and smoothie hubcaps, the lights, the extra equipment. I don't mind that it's OTT even compared to Ecto-1. And I kinda wish that it had been restored as 1A rather than turned into an Ecto-1. But, at least something was finally done with her rather than leaving her to turn to dust on a Sony back lot.
There was meant to be a scene in GB2 where you saw both cars in the firehouse garage making it explicit that 1A (or Ecto-2 at that stage) were different cars. That got jettisoned, presumably for time/plot relevance. I think the comics universe has them as separate cars as well.
I like the 1A look, with the white letter tyres and smoothie hubcaps, the lights, the extra equipment. I don't mind that it's OTT even compared to Ecto-1. And I kinda wish that it had been restored as 1A rather than turned into an Ecto-1. But, at least something was finally done with her rather than leaving her to turn to dust on a Sony back lot.
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GB equipment and props are so well written that it's easy to talk about them and what they all do, how they function and what each part does.
I've just completed my own fluit suit and wore it to my first small comic market yesterday.
I've just completed my own fluit suit and wore it to my first small comic market yesterday.
Adam got access to Phoebe's hero proton pack from Afterlife. Of course he did... I'm not jealous... Nope... Not at all.
Have a gallery of 117 photos - https://www.tested.com/culture/ghostbusters-afterlife-proton-pack-prop-photos/
Oh, and he's built his own take on Egon's pack as well
Have a gallery of 117 photos - https://www.tested.com/culture/ghostbusters-afterlife-proton-pack-prop-photos/
Oh, and he's built his own take on Egon's pack as well
Interesting to look at, wonder what the rest of the packs look like in comparison as the focus mainly seems to be on the spengler pack. Mad that they even reference that scene from the first movie in the elevator with the non existant power on button.
Was thinking of getting an aluminium wand myself, pricey though
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Interesting to look at, wonder what the rest of the packs look like in comparison as the focus mainly seems to be on the spengler pack. Mad that they even reference that scene from the first movie in the elevator with the non existant power on button.
Was thinking of getting an aluminium wand myself, pricey though
I would imagine that Egon modded all the packs to keep them running, but it wouldn't surprise me if one of them was fairly standard. I suspect the main pack that's seen will be Phoebe's though. As for the power switch, really does seem to have been a crew who loved Ghostbusters and wanted to make it as accurate as possible.
I'm really looking forward to going to my local cinema on opening night. There's a few of us who are going to cosplay a bit.
One of the group looks quite a bit like Walter Peck. He's going to wear a cheap suit and get called a certain name throughout he night. Trying to persuade the other half to wear a red bob wig and large glasses for the night. 
Soldato
The Guardian reviewed it and you can feel the visceral hatred dripping off the page as they absolutely HATE it, solely it seems because actual Ghostbuster Fans at NY Comic-Con where it was premiered loved it so much! Based just off that I'm guessing it'll be a world-wide smash, box-office breaker
Some choice quotes -
Some extremely minor spoilers in the review, if you've haven't already seen the trailers - https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/ghostbusters-afterlife-review-slimy-stinking-141333193.html
Some choice quotes -
The Guardian said:
Some extremely minor spoilers in the review, if you've haven't already seen the trailers - https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/ghostbusters-afterlife-review-slimy-stinking-141333193.html
Soldato
@bazzabear I very much doubt they'd be able to find someone who would be willing to say they enjoyed the original that actually works at The Guardian
From my limited understanding the paper mostly appears to be written by, and seemingly written for, people who find it enjoyable to look down upon and even sneer at all the peasant scum who are obviously beneath them, as the staff are clearly vastly intellectually superior to that riff-raff and therefore they rage against the unfairness and indignity of being controlled/led/managed by inferior plebs who've stolen their position of power, when it should be them who are rightfully in charge.
Well thats just my own bias though, having had 3 Guardian readers as middle-management with that exact attitude, your mileage may vary
Well thats just my own bias though, having had 3 Guardian readers as middle-management with that exact attitude, your mileage may vary
@bazzabear I very much doubt they'd be able to find someone who would be willing to say they enjoyed the original that actually works at The Guardian
From my limited understanding the paper mostly appears to be written by, and seemingly written for, people who find it enjoyable to look down upon and even sneer at all the peasant scum who are obviously beneath them, as the staff are clearly vastly intellectually superior to that riff-raff and therefore they rage against the unfairness and indignity of being controlled/led/managed by inferior plebs who've stolen their position of power, when it should be them who are rightfully in charge.
Well thats just my own bias though, having had 3 Guardian readers as middle-management with that exact attitude, your mileage may vary
Wasn't it a writer for the Guardian that disliked Terry Pratchett's books without ever reading any of them?
Soldato
@Neil777 - Jonathon Jones - https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...g/31/terry-pratchett-is-not-a-literary-genius - with an article dripping with the same type of visceral hatred for something that is popular but is simply far too "low-brow" for his own extremely intellectual tastes to enjoy so, like writer of the the GB article, he must belittle and sneer instead. It's faux intellectual "classism" from someone who absolutely believes themselves to be cleverer than everyone else (instead it's very much Dunning-Kruger) and I see it as the mark of someone I could never accept as a "good" human being.
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I really don't like the original Ghostbusters, but that won't colour my opinion of the new movie.